Questions tagged [blockquote]
For questions about the formatting option blockquote. The blockquote is often used when citing information that was written by a person/organization other than yourself.
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Formatting tips below the body textbox of a post are wrong
When posting a question or answer, there is a formatting help below the body textbox, which includes tips for how to format code, make text bold or italic, and quote text:
However, the tips for ...
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Unquoting doesn't always work in the new Stacks Editor
Unquoting doesn't always work in the new Stacks Editor. Example:
Markdown:
> I have been detained when trying to walk out of tuas and was given a warning. DO NOT walk on Tuas. [Anish Sheela](https:...
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Produce a continuous bar on the left side of a blockquote of several paragraphs [duplicate]
I have an issue producing a continuous bar on the left side of a quotation if there are several paragraphs. If I push them together the bar becomes continuously, but the whole text isn't separated in ...
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Formatting in some blog posts is broken
Quoted Lists
In blog posts like The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta, some quoted material has escaped from its blockquote:
And here's the first example from C'Mon Get Meta!:
I don't know ...
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Blockquote reflows fenced code blocks
When using the ” button to blockquote someone else's words (presumably also when using Ctrl+Q, if that wasn't the browser quit key), the quoted material is reflowed, by design. I don't particularly ...
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How to escape spoiler in blockquote that starts with exclamation point
How can I "escape" the spoiler syntax when putting some text in a blockquote that starts with an exclamation point?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/170880/267540
Here is the text that ...
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In a bookmarked conversation, quoted text is displayed incorrectly [duplicate]
When I use quote (i.e., a message starting with ">") in chat, it displays fine both in chat and in transcript. But if the same message is rendered differently if it is a part of a ...
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The preview for a question is different from the view of the question
This is not a duplicate of Block quote handling mismatch between preview and post. The questions are somewhat similar in that the preview is incorrectly parsing the Markdown, but from both a ...
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When rendering posts, a blockquote line followed by a blockquoted psuedo-setext heading underline ending with any character becomes a setext heading
When rendering posts, a blockquote line followed by a blockquoted pseudo-setext heading underline ending with any character turns those lines into a setext heading.
Here's what the CommonMark spec ...
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Blockquote description in Markdown help
I think the description of "blockquote" https://cs.stackexchange.com/editing-help#simple-blockquotes is confusing. It doesn't explain what blockquote should be used for and instead says
You ...
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How to write multiline quotes in an answer
While answering questions, I found that the delimiter '>' for blockquotes on answers truncates newlines.
Refer to the following example.
I have typed one line here.
This is has been typed on the ...
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Using blockquote in chat doesn't work when it's part of a text block [duplicate]
In the chat, when using a blockquote markup after a line of text, the blockquote doesn't render.
For example, if I try:
text:
> quote
I get this:
What's the correct way to use it in this case?
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Block quote handling mismatch between preview and post
Noticed on my answer to a question on BGSE, the preview and the posted answer, the block quote is handled differently:
This is the markup for my rules quote:
Here is the preview that shows below the ...
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Have post previews surround blockquoted text in quotation marks
When a post uses a blockquote, the preview of that post obviously doesn't retain that formatting, but this means that the text runs together like it is one sentence. For a concrete example, here is an ...
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Blockquotes don't render in bookmarked chat conversations
When reading a bookmarked chat conversation, blockquote formatting doesn't work (the > shows up as if it was plain text). Here's an example conversation:
It doesn't break in the transcript or in ...
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